Staff profile
Affiliation | Telephone |
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Professor in the Department of Psychology | +44 (0) 191 33 43289 |
Fellow of the 黑料网 Research Methods Centre | |
Fellow in the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing | +44 (0) 191 33 43289 |
Biography
Lynda Boothroyd is a Professor of Psychology at 黑料网. Her research focuses on and Cross-Cultural understandings of interpersonal attraction and sexual selection. She has recently in rural Nicaragua alongside experimental work both in the laboratory and in the field on the impacts of visual experience on body size preferences.
Lynda engages in science communication in relation to her research both on and on issues around , including BBC short films and articles at .
She has a multidisciplinary approach to her research, incorporating perspectives from Evolutionary Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Social Psychology and Biological Anthropology, and has incorporated a mixed-methods component in her current work.
In addition, she is a trainer for ‘Succeed’– the UK edition of an international preventative body image programme – and has trained students at 黑料网 and Newcastle in being peer leaders on this programme.
Information for potential PhD and postdoc researchers
She is interested in supporting applications for PhDs or postdoctoral fellowships from researchers who want to pursue interdisciplinary projects addressing how sociocultural, psychological and bio-evolutionary factors influence our conceptions of attractiveness, body shape, or gender. She is also interested in supporting projects on body image interventions, particularly from a cross-cultural perspective.
Potential funding streams applicants should consider include the ESRC Nine-DTP stream for PhDs and postdoctoral fellows, the University's doctoral studentships, and the European Research Council's Marie Curie post-doctoral scheme.
Research interests
- Attraction
- Body size preferences
- Cross-cultural research, especially in subsistence populations
- Cultural drivers of behaviour
- Evolutionary Social and Developmental Psychology
- Facial masculinity
- Gender
- Body image
Esteem Indicators
- 2021: External examiner of doctoral degree - University of Pretoria:
- 2019: External examiner of doctoral degree - Northumbria University:
- 2018: Elected vice-president of the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association:
- 2017: Keynote speaker - PsyPAG 2017:
- 2012: : European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association
Publications
Chapter in book
Journal Article